statement of responsibility: collected by Sarah Cooper Hewitt and Eleanor G. Hewitt

Title devised by cataloger

With some brief handwritten annotations, presumably by the Hewitt sisters

Album 1. (30 leaves) Engraving. Flemish, French, Italy. 15th-18th century -- Album 2. (12 leaves) Architectural decoration. Drawings. Italy. 16th century. Religious -- Album 3. (27 leaves) Architecture. Interiors. Gardens. England and Ireland. Drawings. Tracings. Photographic reproductions. Postcards -- Album 4. (12 leaves) Color printing and painting on silk textiles, mounted on paper. French 18th century pastoral scenes from paintings by Jean-Antoine Watteau and François Boucher, engraved by Laurent Guyot

Scrapbooks containing images on various themes of art and architecture, chiefly with a European focus, collected by sisters Sarah Cooper Hewitt and Eleanor G. Hewitt

CHMRB copy (Album 1, 39088017216771; Album 2, 39088017216813; Album 3, 39088017216854; Album 4, 39088017216896) has either blue or black cloth binders, with triple metal posts or wooden clamps

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